8,000 programs with a distribution level of over 150,000 awards for undergraduate and postgraduate students worth a total of more than $35 million is what EdFed's comprehensive scholarship database contains. It also includes student loan forgiveness programs for those who have graduated from college and need alternatives for repayment.

Applicant must be a current AISES member, be a U.S. citizen, enrolled full-time as undergraduate at an accredited college or university, be seeking a Bachelor's degree in engineering or sience and have a minimum cumulative 2.5 GPA.

GREAT! That is the one word that would describe my experience with EdFed. I had an outstanding balance of over $100,000 in loans from medical school and they helped me save tens of thousands of dollars with their payment incentives. Thanks EdFed. - Ellen R. Cambridge, MA

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Education is one of the most basic right of any human, but with the increase in prices and the costs involved in education this has made these rights turn into a privilege which very few can enjoy. Any normal person today in the whole of United States has to take an education loan at one point of time to pay for their education fees.